Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin talk about doubt and where we can find a stable foundation that honors and invites our doubt toward goodness, truth, and beauty.Questions Covered in This Episode:Have you ever experienced profound doubt?What do you think are some of the most common places of doubt?What is doubt an invitation to?Do we find doubt in the bible?Where do you find a stable foundation that honors and invites your doubt toward goodness, truth, and beauty?If someone is listening to this episode and is experiencing or has experienced deep doubts about who God is, what God has done, and how God is inviting us to live…how would we encourage them?Resources Mentioned in This Episode:Genesis 3, Matthew 26, John 21:15-19, ​​John 20:24-29The ChosenFollow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting PlaceConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Sam Alberry to have a conversation about the question, is God anti-gay?Questions Covered in This Episode:In March a new edition of Is God anti-gay is being released. Why are you updating the book? What’s changed?Did the first edition play out how you thought it would?Is God Anti-Gay?What do you say to the people who think and feel that they are their sexuality?Some suggest that we might look back on what we might call conservative Christian sexual ethics in the future as we look back on people who held unbiblical and oppressive views of women or other races in the past. Are we in danger of that?What is your encouragement to people who are looking for an answer to this question?Guest Bio:Sam Allberry is a pastor, apologist, and speaker. He is the author of a number of books, including Is God Anti-Gay?, Why Bother with Church?, 7 Myths about Singleness, and What God Has To Say About Our Bodies. He has written extensively for numerous organizations, including The Gospel Coalition, Desiring God, and Living Out.Resources Mentioned in This Episode:“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone” by J.K. Rowling“Is God Anti-Gay? And Other Questions About Jesus, the Bible, and Same-Sex Sexuality” by Sam Alberry“Is God anti-gay?” by Sam AlberryFollow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting PlaceConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Season 2 of Confronting Christianity begins on January 24! In this episode, Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin preview what is to come in Season 2.Questions Covered in This Episode:What are we going to cover in Season 2?What guests are we going to have on this season?Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting PlaceConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin discuss Rebecca’s new book “Jesus Through The Eyes of Women.”Questions Covered in This Episode:Is there a cultural impression that Christianity is misogynistic?You just wrote a book on Jesus through the Eyes of Women: Why did you write this?How does the perspective of the women in the gospels showcase some unique truths of the person and ministry of Jesus that we would lose if we don’t look through that gaze?Have you always known that women were a part of Jesus’s disciples in the fullest sense or am I late to see this?Should Jesus be our model for how we interact with others, specifically women?What is the big takeaway from this book?Resources Mentioned in This Episode:John 4, Luke 10:38-42, Mark 5:25-34, Matthew 15:22-29The Lost Kitchen“Jesus through the Eyes of Women” by Rebecca McLaughlin“The Resurrection of the Son of God” by N.T. WrightAmazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for supporting Training the Church.Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship PodcastConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin answer questions submitted by listeners!Questions Covered in This Episode:Why did there stop being prophets? Surely God is still speaking (inspiring?) since the 1st century. Why is there no book of Rebecca? Or book of CS Lewis?Why does no one ever talk about divorce? It’s mentioned in the OT and New Testament, and the internet is full of polarized views on it?I would love to hear what you guys say about the times in scripture when someone prays and God seems to ‘change his mind…’“My friend and I are reading through Acts and what we are seeing there – the daily interactions of believers – is so different from our local church experience. What do we do with that?”How would you recommend thinking through God’s sovereignty alongside what some would say are natural consequences of living in a broken world. As in, is God using my X for good, or was that His intention for my life from birth?How much do we have to hate someone to not share the gospel with them? What are your thoughts on that?What’s your favorite bible passage?What does Imago dei mean? How does that interpretation influence our decisions regarding social justice, race relations, and other human rights relative to our current culture?Can you pronounce one another’s last names?My college-aged daughter has a Christian friend who just shared she is bisexual. Any practical ideas of how my daughter might bring truth into their friendship and conversations without affirming behavior that is outside of God’s plan or failing to respond or speak in love?Helpful Definitions:Imago Dei: Image of God. Doctrine in which we believe that humans are created in the image of God and are worthy of unconditional dignity.Resources Mentioned in This Episode:1 Corinthians 14:1-25, 2 Timothy 3:16, Genesis 18:16-33, Exodus 34, Jonah, Genesis 50:20, John 11, John 1, Matthew 5-7, Romans 8Amazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for supporting Training the Church.Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship PodcastConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin have a conversation about how cultural Christianity has impacted the global west.Questions Covered in This Episode:Is it good that “cultural Christianity” is on the decline in the west?How do people who are culturally Christian respond to an invitation to church or to talk about God?How much of this is tied with the reckoning that has to happen with the past indulgences (the best and the worst) of western culture broadly?Do Christians in the global west, do we have an eeyore complex? Do we have an “everything we have ever done is bad” mindset?Resources Mentioned in This Episode:“Boom Town” by Sam Anderson“The Color of Compromise” by Jemar TisbyAmazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for supporting Training the Church.Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship PodcastConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Dr. Karen Swallow Prior to have a conversation about abortion and how we as Christians can engage with the sanctity of human life issues most helpfully.Questions Covered in This Episode:Would you be willing to share a bit of your story: How did you come to follow Jesus? What led you into your field of study? What led you to become involved in right to life and sanctity of human life issues?How has your involvement in this changed over the years?How do Christians engage most helpfully?What was your response when you heard about the prospect of Roe’s overturn? How should we respond?How do we live in the tension of being pro-life and glad for progress on this and at the same time relate to friends to who this feels like an injustice?How do we be sober-minded enough to view how tragic the full sweep of abortion is?How do we move forward? What’s next?What do we do now practically?Guest Bio:Dr. Karen Swallow Prior is Research Professor of English and Christianity and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition, she is the author of numerous books, including: Booked, Fierce Convictions, On Reading Well, and the co-editor of Cultural Engagement: A Crash Course in Contemporary Issues. She has a column for Religion News Service and her writing has appeared at Christianity Today, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Gospel Coalition…and just about everywhere else.Resources Mentioned in This Episode:Operation RescueCASA Amazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for supporting Training the Church.Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship PodcastConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin are joined by Justin Giboney to have a conversation about how Christians view diversity. Questions Covered in This Episode:What led you to the work you do now with the And Campaign?What would you have said to my 2008 UK self, trying to navigate that seemingly Christian values were evenly distributed between two options?Don’t Christians oppose ethnic and cultural diversity?What kind of diversity should the Christian community consider as a part of its pursuit? Are there limits on what that entails?How can we help people understand that there are different kinds of diversity?How do you respond to people who say “there is only one race”? Is that a helpful framework?It does seem like within the church, there are competing visions for dealing with the history of Christian complicity in rejecting people outside the majority. What do you do when you have a group of Christians who are trying to live in the tension of conviction and compassion and they see the pathway forward differently from each other?How do we navigate that well when we all come to the table with very different feelings about the table?If a young white evangelical Christian came to you and said “I’ve got to leave the church, do you know how complicit Christians have been in the history of racism in this country?” How would you respond?Is the perception that the present reality of the black church in america looks very different when it comes to some of the most important moral issues. Is that perception true or misleading?Help us understand why people think that black americans / black Christians would vote democrat and would therefore have more progressive views? How do we not fall for this misleading characterization that the black church is at heart progressive in anti-scriptural sense?What continues to compel you to move forward?Guest Bio:Justin Giboney is co-founder of the And Campaign, an attorney, a political strategist, a host on the Church Politics Podcast, and one of the co-authors of the book Compassion and Conviction.Resources Mentioned in This Episode:Revelation 7And Campaign“Reading While Black” by Esau McCaulleyAmazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for supporting Training the Church.Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship PodcastConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin explore the question, are we better off without religion?Questions Covered in This Episode:Is America, in general, more religious than the UK?Would you say the perception of religion among non-believers is generally positive or negative?The change in 2005-2008 range, do you think the atheist tones were driving how people were thinking?Is there data around the psychological benefits of religious practice?What do you say when someone says: Religion is the cause of wars, bloodshed, and injustice? Religion hurts people…?Is religion bad or good? Why?Is there a benefit to religious worldviews abounding in the world whether they are Christian or not?Would you be comfortable describing yourself as a religious person?Are we better off without religion?Resources Mentioned in This Episode:Matthew 16:24-26“God Is Not Great” by Christopher HitchensHuman Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science“Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo IshiguroAmazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for supporting Training the Church.Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship PodcastConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠

Kyle Worley and Rebecca McLaughlin talk about deconstructing; where has this come from and how should we engage?Questions Covered in This Episode:Let’s talk about deconstruction: Where has this come from?What is the most helpful way for us to approach people's real questions?Don’t we also need cultural deconstruction?How often are we deconstructing how culture (sarcasm, the sexual revolution, systemic injustice) has influenced us and our beliefs?Can the church be salvaged? Why not just embrace an anti-institutional practice of following Jesus?Resources Mentioned in This Episode:John 6:60-71“After Doubt” by A. J. SwobodaAmazon affiliate links are used where appropriate. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, thank you for supporting Training the Church.Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship PodcastConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Follow Us:Instagram | TwitterOur Sister Shows:Knowing Faith | The Family Discipleship Podcast | Starting Place | Tiny TheologiansConfronting Christianity is a podcast of Training the Church. For ad-free episodes and more content check out our Patreon. Produced by⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Good Podcast Co.⁠⁠⁠⁠